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Squarish means roughly square — square enough that 'square' is the word you reach for, but not so exactly square that you want to commit. A squarish room, a squarish face, squarish glasses, a squarish package. The -ish is doing real work here: it is the speaker admitting they are estimating. It is casual and friendly, the kind of word you use when describing something you saw rather than something you measured, and for that reason it belongs in speech and everyday writing, not in a technical description where you would give the actual dimensions. It can describe the outline of a thing (a squarish window) or the overall build of a thing (a squarish man — meaning broad and solid rather than literally four-sided). Because -ish attaches so freely in English, you will meet a whole family of these: roundish, longish, , tallish. Learning squarish really means learning that pattern.
方方的;有點四方形的。「差不多是正方形,但沒那麼標準」,語氣是隨口估計,不是精確描述。
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
squarishadj/ˈskwɛɹ.ɪʃ/
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Approximately square.
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Somewhat square.
- When they reached the foot of the hill they caught a glimpse of what might be rocks on each side—squarish rocks, if you looked at them carefully, but no one did.
- The cars, which are of pleasing but somewhat squarish outline, are unstreamlined.
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Oblong.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。